VPN recommendations?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jun 28, 2007, at 15:45, Ted Roche wrote:

> Has anyone got recommendations other than the OpenVPN Ken showed off,
> horror stories, great experiences?

I just replaced my DD-WRT box with a pfSense (FreeBSD/m0n0wall- 
derived) box last night to accomplish a similar task.  I've installed  
several for commercial accounts.  It even does hot failover.  pfSense  
allows me to sell a hot-failover firewall for 1/3 of the Cisco  
pricetag and alot more features and freedom too.  I haven't yet found  
a scenario where I can't replace a PIX and its tortuous config with a  
point-n-click pfSense.

It has OpenVPN but I just turned on PPTP for quick-n-dirty  
gratification.

I have OEM hardware for commercial customers but I used an old via C3  
box with two onboard NIC's and an extra PCI NIC.  Boot off a crummy  
old CD drive and store your config file on a $14.87 usb flash stick  
(I just got back from WalMart with one for this purpose - NewEgg has  
'em for $6).

-Bill

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